A B C D E G H I K L M N O P R S T W Z Zeus, Munich, Antikensammlungen 596 There are two kinds of searches possible for this web site. The first type, which is comprehensive, involves just entering a mythological character’s name in the search box over the left menu … Continue reading Subject tags for mythological characters
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Scholia to Hesiod, Works and Days 89 ♠ Eumelos, Korinthiaka fr 1 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 108, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. ♠ Servius, Scholia to Vergil, Eclogues 6.42 – Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii Bucolica et … Continue reading Page 157 (with art)
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 521-22 And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle. Greek Text ♦ Athens, National Archaeoloigcal Museum, 16384: Attic black-figure skyphos-krater by Nettos Painter, with Herakles, Prometheus and eagle Image … Continue reading Page 155 (with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Eretria, Archaeological Museum: terracotta statuette of horse/man from Lefkandi (Kentauros?) Wikimedia ♦ Paris, Cabinet des Médailles M.5837: Cycladic sealstone, archer and horse/man (Herakles and Kentauros Nessos?) Cabinet des Médailles ♦ Athens, National Museum 15350: ivory relief plaque from … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 145, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pindar, Pythian 4.119 The divine centaur called me by the name Jason. Greek Text ♠ Pindar fr 166 SM – Pindarus 2, p. 121, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975. When the Centaurs knew the man-taming … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 144, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paestum Museum: three metopes from the Heraion I at Foce del Sele, with Herakles defending Hera? and two pairs of Silenoi advancing with stones raised Soprintendenza Archeologia per le provincie di Salerno e Avellino ♦ Wurzbug University, Martin … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 137, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Stesichoros, Geryoneis 181 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 99 ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962. ♠ Sophokles, Trachiniai 1095-6 you tamed the Lernaean Hydra, and that monstrous army of beasts with double form, hostile, going on hoofed feet, violent, lawless, of surpassing … Continue reading Pholos (page 390 lower, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hekataios 1F6 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 8-9, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Sophokles, Trachiniai 1097 you tamed the beast in Erymanthia. Greek Text ♦ Sanctuary of Artemis Laphria at Kalydon: painted terra-cotta metope fragment … Continue reading Labor IV: The Erymanthian Boar (page 389 lower, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paris, Musee de Louvre G263: Attic red-figure cup by the Antiphon Painter with Herakles and the Hind; Herakles pushes Hind down with his left knee while seizing one of her horns with both hands; to the right is Apollo with bow and arrow … Continue reading Labor III: The Keryneian/Kerynitian Hind (page 389 upper, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hyginus, Fabulae 30 The wild stag with golden horns in Arcadia he brought alive to show Eurystheus. Latin Text ♦ Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 75-35-1: Boiotian fibula with Herakles attacking Hind with a spear as he holds one of her … Continue reading Labor III: The Keryneian/Kerynitian Hind (page 388, with art)
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